Dai Nippon Printing’s new training centre, by architect Kenya Ishihara, was designed to inspire its employees. With a spa and views of Mount Fuji, it seems more like a retreat than a place of work but with this incentive…

The iconic Mount Fuji in Japan has finally been named as a World Heritage Site but Monocle’s Asia bureau chief has some reservations about creating a heritage hotspot.

Last week in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Mount Fuji was admitted to an exclusive club. At the annual session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Japan’s highest peak – and argu…

Wherever I fly to, I like to swim at. Not just because it’s a great way to slough off the cramped confines and arid air of a long haul but also because it gives me a chance to see a little more of a society. A dip is also…

Wherever I fly to, I like to swim at. Not just because it’s a great way to slough off the cramped confines and arid air of a long haul but also because it gives me a chance to see a little more of a society. A dip is also…

Music festivals have become big business in Japan, whether you want kodo drummers at The Earth Celebration or J-pop at A-Nation. But the one that started the boom is still the biggest and the best: Fuji Rock. We headed to…

This weekend see a new perspective on photography in Toronto, check out some Korean ceramics in Tokyo, and head to a festival just outside London created by the XX.

It’s hard to appreciate the architectural beauty of highway interchanges from the ground but Toronto photographer Peter Andrew Lusztyk has taken gone to great lengths (and heights) to make it possible to admire North Ame…

When luxury cosmetics brand Three decided to open a shop, spa and restaurant in central Aoyama, it needed a space that would echo its understated image yet stand out from the crowd. We meet the team behind the evolving…

In June 1998, Ichiri Fujiura headed to Baltimore, Maryland, with a handful of beers that he’d made in his kitchen.

In June 1998, Ichiri Fujiura headed to Baltimore, Maryland, with a handful of beers that he’d made in his kitchen. Days later he headed back to Tokyo with the American Homebrewers Association’s top prize –Homebrewer of the…

Our favourites from around the world this month include a sushi spot in London, a lovers’ retreat in Greece and a Taipei hotel full of Warhol and Dalí originals. We also profile Norwegian airline Widerøe.

It was the perfect powdery snow blown in from Siberia that attracted the Aussie skiers. And when they decided to stay put and open hotels and cafés they kickstarted a small business and development boom in Niseko, a once…